Thanks a gob. Went to bios, put the ide cdrom above the hard drive in the boot
sequence and voila, linux cd booted! First new thing that I've learned this
year! Omen for the year. Yee haa. Wish the same for all.
Tom Berkley
Brian Hartman wrote:
> It's a BIOS issue. ide cd-rom's can be bootable, too (mine is), but your
> bios needs to be set for it. You need to have a bios that supports bootup
> from cdrom and you need to set the boot sequence so that the cdrom is looked
> for first to boot from, rather than the hard drive.
>
> On Monday 01 January 2001 12:23 am, you wrote:
> > Are you sure, I believe it depends on your BIOS first
> > and foremost, if you can set it to boot in a priority
> > of cd-rom, floppy,HD.
> >
> > Al
> >
> > --- Tom Berkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > You need a cdrom that is bootable. I have never been
> > > able to boot with an
> > > ide cdrom drive, however, my plextor cdrom drives on
> > > my scsi bus are
> > > bootable. I am in fact reminded often when I leave a
> > > linux cd in either
> > > cdrom drive and reboot my system.
> > >
> > > Tom Berkley
> > >
>
> --
> Brian Hartman, MLS
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
